In what way did He come but this,
“The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us”?17271727John i. 14. Just as
when we speak, in order that what we have in our minds may enter
through the ear into the mind of the hearer, the word which we have
in our hearts becomes an outward sound and is called speech; and
yet our thought does not lose itself in the sound, but remains
complete in itself, and takes the form of speech without being
modified in its own nature by the change: so the Divine Word,
though suffering no change of nature, yet became flesh, that He
might dwell among us.